Future of Coputers
The computers of the future are expected to be smaller, faster and smarter. For the past 20 years, CPU performance has doubled about every 18 months. The PowerPC will stay close to this pace for the next 10 years--a nearly 100-fold improvement in that time. The storage capacities of hard drives will continue to expand, they are currently growing at a rate of about 60 percent per year. Today, Intel's Pentium II has 7.5 million transistors. If the trend continues, Intel processors should contain 50 million to 100 million transistors in the first decade of the next century. In 5 years, computers will have 16 times the memory capacity they do now. "One big challenge is the time for the processor to acc- ess the memory. [One solution is that] the processor might be on the same chip as memo- ry. Every time you buy memory, you get a processor." Actual voice input will become a reality, but it may not be widely employed in offices because of privacy and environmental issues. According to Gates. He predicts that within ten years, "every computer will have speech and linguistics built into it. Instead of typing
on the internet, such as downloads and plug-ins can be priced at fees of $1 or $2. This will nection (sans surgery) maybe possible in the next 10 years. start sounding like Jim Carry. As machines and computers become more intelligent, they
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